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Your article is ranked in last place! You worked so hard on it. Are the raters doing their jobs? Is there a "raters' conspiracy" on Helium?

Understand the "publication" you are writing for. Helium is an article directory and a self-monitored writing community. Helium is a modern-age business venture in which quality written articles are brokered to publishers for cash. "Quality" writing is wanted and rewarded.

Writers must understand the value of Helium's proprietary rating system and how it works so they can "play the game" to their best advantage. Writers must rate their peers' articles so only the best are pushed to the top for public viewing.

The "Helium game plan": All writers must earn one gold rating star to receive monthly payouts for their works. That means each writer must do 10 quality rates (no random "this-is-better" button-pushing allowed) in 30 days or 30 in a 90-day rollover to earn one gold star.

Writers also earn blue stars for writing and are given merit pay according to how many articles they write, how the articles rank, how many page views the articles get, and how much advertisers are willing to put into the channels they write for.

Helium's algorithm-based system (along with other clever, objective mathematics) gives rating percentages based on quality rates. All writers are strongly encouraged to "vote" for the "better" article as they are presented in anonymous, side-by-side pairs. Raters are told to choose the one they feel is "more relevant" and "more valuable."

With all of the complaints about Helium's "secretive," proprietary system, check out the results objectively before you complain too much. Notice that four- and five-star writers tend to be near the top, consistently. You might find a "stray" once in a while, but once a title group reaches consensus, the final results are ranked relatively "correctly." Helium is constantly looking for a "better" system but hasn't found one.

Look at a "knowledge group" which invites fact-based articles, which earn upfront fees, "kill fees," and ongoing earnings that become more than pocket change.

Understand your "employer." Look at Helium with the eyes of a professional writer. The "softer channels" are welcomed at Helium, but they do not earn writing stars or upfront pay. The do earn badges and small change. Exempt channels are Creative Writing, Religion, Politics and Debates. Note that include information that can be altered daily and still be "valid."

Helium is no longer a post-a-note

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